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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
My analogy is not perfect,
Here we agree.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
You can view the EU in one of two ways... a political party that cannot be voted out, or the state itself. If you don't want to view the EU as a one-party system, then you can instead view it as a state that has a perpetual coalition of a ridiculous number of parties with vastly different interests representing multiple cultures, with no one party dominating policy.
Sure you CAN view it in any number of ways, but only one of those is anywhere close to reality. If EU were a one party system, what would be the state in your analogy? Who's in charge of this party? The number of parties is precisely as ridiculous as the number of member states. Which member states do you feel should not have representation? You might not like the fact that you personally cannot dictate how the whole EU operates by your single vote, and not even by the votes of the UK, but that is how democracy works.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
If this is your kind of democracy, good for you. For me, this isn't democracy. You can't influence policy by voting for members of a particular party in. So what's the point? The whole point of democracy is so that policy is ultimately in the control of the electorate.
You can precisely influence policy by voting for the members of a particular party in as MEPs. The electorate vote in the MEPs who have the power. This isn't difficult or complex.
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